Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-08
BURGLARS are operating extensively

BURGLARS are operating extensively
at Wichita.
THE Wichita base ball club has with
drawn from the Western League.
GREAT preparations are being made
for the State Fair at Topeka September
10th to oath inclusive.
THE Colorado Indian scare is over,
COlOrow and his bucks having returned
to their reservation in Utah.
MARsHALL's military band of To-
peka, will attend and contest for the
highest honors at the international
band meeting at Chicago.
PRESENT indications point to Il large
immigration to Kansas this year, and if
the signs are not amiss Great Bend will
get her share and little more.
ONE of the greatest gas wells dis
covered in this country was struck at
Millmaster, Mich, on the End inst.
When lighted, the flames extend 100
feet above the derrick, and the roar of
escaping gas could be heard distance
of three miles.
ATTORNEY General Bradford has
filled quo aoarrantS proceedings in the
Supreme court against the County At
torney and a Justice of the Peace at
Wichita for double dealing on the pro-
hibitory question, charging them with
receiving hush money from keepers of
joints.
LARNED is soon to call an election
for the purpose of issuingS5, o 90 in city
bonds with which to prospect for nat
ural gas. This plan was talked of by
some of our people as being feasible
one to adopt i'll Great Bend, but the
objection was raised that the city had
not the power to issue bonds for pur-
pose of speculation. Be this as it may,
if Larned issues her bonds and bores
for and finds natural gas, it will be one
of the best investments their city cOun-
Gil ever made.
THERE is growing inclination OH
the part of the young men of the land,
who are employed in banks, stores, of
fees, to become ''SmOOthen and adrOit
in the ways of the sharper and profess
sional dead beat. The desire to wear
the finest clothes, to drive fast teams
and to take in all the sporting events
of the season is so strong that it is a
hardship for them to remain at their
places of business. Ii these young
men would put in little of their leis-
ure time reading the current literature
of the day; if they would carefully
read the daily papers and learn from
them the first causes leading to crime
and ruin, they would pay more atten-
tion to the requirements of their indi-
vidual positions, would learn that they
can be just as happy and contented i'll
earning an honest, though a meager,
salary as they would be had they all
the privileges of the wealthy.
We notice that i'll appointing COM
mittees to work up the county fair,
Pawnee Rock township was left out
Well, folks, you can count us i'll on
the scheme anyhow. We think the
county should hold fair this season,
even if the beginning is small. 1t
takes time to bring such an institution
on paying foundation. but the peo
pie of the county should not lag i'll the
matter. Some people in Pawnee Rock
think we have been snubbed i'll this
matter, and threaten to make a new
county out of this township, with Paw
nee Rock as county seat, but we advise
them not to try it on. 1t would be
necessary to vote bonds to carry out
the scheme, and we are everlasting Op-
posed to bonds. Aye! Chap.-Paw-
nee Rock Leader.
WE ARE glad that thepeople of Paw
nee Rock are interested with the rest
of the county in the coming fair. In
the matter of appointing a member OF
the committee to work up the fair from
Pawnee Rock township we feel certain
that it was an oversight on the part of
the gentlemen who had the matter i'll
hand, and it was not the intention to
slight any part of the county. Pawnee
is as good a township as we have in
the county, and can produce as much
to make fair interesting as any other
township, therefore we ask of your
citizens, in behalf of the officers of the
fair association, that they unite with |
us in furthering the interests of the
fair.